Behind the Ukrainian Forces’ march towards redeeming its country’s glory are armored mobility vehicles that carry the brave souls of the embattled country. An infantry mobility vehicle (IMV) is a motorized armored personnel carrier (APC) functioning as a combat surveillance, espionage, or protection vehicle.

IMVs typically have an undercarriage shaped like a letter V and have additional personnel security capabilities, such as four-point seat belts and seats suspended from the top or sides of the vehicle. In addition, the Military Wiki indicated that instead of having a crew member serve the weapon, most of them have a remote weapon system that makes them more advanced and safer from opposing attacks.

Here’s what you need to know about the top five mobility vehicles used by Ukrainian Ground Forces:

Varta

In December 2018, the Ukrainian Armed Forces acquired the armored personnel carrier (APC) vehicles manufactured by Varta.

The VARTA is a type of armored personnel carrier developed in Ukraine. The crew within the vehicle is protected from armor-piercing incendiary ammunition of up to 7.62 millimeters, thanks to the quality of steel used in the construction of the vehicle compartment. The anti-mine seats are housed within the V-shaped hull structure of the VARTA, too. This provides the crew with the protection necessary to resist the explosion of charges weighing up to 6 kilograms of TNT. A fighting module available for the VARTA can be outfitted with either a 7.62 mm or 12.7 mm machine gun. To add, the ringed perimeter of the vehicle is equipped with ten-gun ports, each of which has the potential to house a UBGL (Under-Barrel Grenade Launcher).

CORD Ukrainian Special Police Varta APC. (Source: U.S. Embassy Kyiv Ukraine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

FV103 Spartan

The British Army in the 1960s commissioned the Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) platform, which served as the basis for developing several light-tracked vehicles, including the FV103 Spartan. Because of their function as reconnaissance and infantry support vehicles, machines in this class, which production started in 1970, are characterized by their incredibly diminutive size and stealthy profile. This is because of their design. Some iterations of the Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) are even shorter than the most recent iteration of the Toyota Land Cruiser. They are only slightly taller and broader than that model even though they are military vehicles belonging to the category “tracked vehicles.”